What are the steps and requirements for obtaining a retirement visa in Thailand, especially for Hua Hin?

no no please dont come to Thailand. Thailand is already full with idiots farangs. Bus is full, please use another bus.

Get yourself an interpreter who understands gibberish

Get education visa and learn English

I would suggest not having bongs before you post what your trying to get across.🤣🤣

Contact your Local Thailand Consulate- email- Google- Everything you require to know will be available.

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Sounds like you need to pay someone to do all the thinking for you

Have you spent anytime in Thailand at all

Come for a few months and see it you like it

After what you’ve posted I’m guessing you haven’t been here or done much research . Best advice in your case come on visa exempt and go see an agent

So much wrong information here its ridiculous, Don't even know where to start correcting some of it.

It sounds like you have done absolutely no research and probably not even been to Thailand before, not a good plan if you have aplan at all. I can understand why you want to leave USA but without any planning it's going to be a bigger disaster than staying put, if that's possible. What I recommend is come over for a LONG holiday, get a tourist visa or visa stamp om arrival and stay for 3 months (60 day + extension) and spend 1 month in 3 different areas, Pattaya, Phuket, Bangkok, Hua Hin etc to see where if any you like. Speak to a lot of expats, people with feet on the ground are the best sourcce of information as far as life style & costs are concerned. Do NOT get commited to a 'relationship' while on holiday, that's a real way to end up poor. If after all of this you still want to know more and need help then come back top this group or another similar one in the area you want to live in and ask for advice again. I'm not trying to put you off as I've live inThailand as an expat for over 14 years and can really recommend it if you get things right but I've also seen many disasters with other expats who got it wrong in a big way.

Non-O Retirement Visa of extension.

800.000 Baht in a thai bank account in your own name. 2 months before renewal and 3 months after renewal.

The other months at least 400.000 Baht or monthly income of 65.000 Baht or a combination of income and money in the bank.

Stay far away from Visa agents.

You must apply for a retirement visa from the Thai consulate in your country and then open a bank account in Thailand in the area where you reside.

Sounds like you need.to do alot more research on this. It seems like you have no idea what you're in for. Good luck and start by watching YouTube and saving alot more money.

The proper way is you go to the royal Thai embassy and apply for a retirement visa funds health insurance no criminal record over 55 years old lot of paper work or you get a non immigrant o visa and apply in Thailand normally using a agent

Hello there yes there is agency's that can help you with all that... I can send you the one that I know and trust... Good luck with your new life 🧬

Buy a one way plane ticket is the easyest.

Just get the visitors visa on arrival and extend the stay until you get there and have a Thai visa agent apply for you the process is fairly easy but you must have your last 3 months bank statements your pension letter, a u.s. criminal background check. And health care insurances for a certain amount.

Try iran instead. Ur great leader trump said he will take iran in 6 days.

Swimming over is best. The Atlantic ocean is smaller than the Pacific ocean, therefore much quicker. Pre ship your luggage to your decided destination. Then just go to whatever ocean is nearest you now, and jump in. Keep heading East and you'll arrive before you know it.

For a fellow American your English is terrible. It's like 5th grade level. Anyway go online to the Thai Embassy website and you will find many categories of Visas and their requirements. As for traveling here a rowboat is probably the cheapest option. I can tell that Thailand is going to eat you alive.

Just do it!

Thailand will be perfect for you. Your English is as lousy as the English most Thais speak. 😂

Just use chatGPT it will tell you how to wipe your butt.

You need to read

Unfortunately the OP has no clue. He needs to go to the website of the Thai embassy in his home country and review the Visa options and requirements. Thailand on vacation is a lot different than full time residency. Learn to speak some Thai would be a helpful step.

Find an agent it makes it easier

Good question.

Don’t be disappointed but your OP is not clear.

Why are you looking to initially move to Hohen and then later move to Hua Hin?

YOU NEED A VISA/TRAVEL AGENCY "If" You Can Afford One ? You Could Try "MOTS" Not That Expensive An "Cuts Thru A Ton of Stress & Aggravation...But Time Is $'s To Me ! NOT GOING THRU ANY "IMMIGRATION DRAMA ! Period !"

Please stay and help Trump

knows nothing, never been, wants everything, now waiting on , but i don't have the funds, do i buy or rent

STAY HOME

Look at a different country. TH is not like it used to be

Soi 6 Pattaya girl called Ping Pong

Oh dear another clueless seppo

Contact the owners of this group they are an agent, You sound like you need some real guidance.

Well, there are several roads leading to the 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa and to the subsequent 1-year extended stay permit based on retirement.

We are talking about the most common and persisting misunderstandings regarding the rules that come with applying for the “retirement visa” and the subsequent “one-year extension of stay permit based on retirement”. Misunderstandings happen because a “retirement visa” can mean 7 different visas and stay permits

The best way is to enter Thailand on a 90-days single entry Non-Imm-O Retirement/over 50 Visa”, as it will get you a 90-days stay permit stamped. On this visa, you can get a Thai bank account opened. Within this 90-days period, you have plenty of time to arrange for the application to the “1-year extended stay permit”

On a Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa, there is no mandatory health insurance, no police report and no medical check needed. These are requirements if you apply for the 365-days Non-Imm-O/A Longstay Visa.

In order to apply for the “90-days single entry Non-Imm-O retirement visa” through the online E-visa system at the Royal Thai Embassy of your home country, you can use the proof of income of a monthly minimum of 65,000 THB, by using your original pension or other income documentation.

Or you can use a deposit of a minimum of 800,000 THB or the equivalent in your home country currency, or on your home bank account, or on a Thai bank, or just anywhere in the World – as long as it is in your sole name

However, for the application inside Thailand to the “1-year extension of stay permit” out of the initial 90-days Non-Imm-O Retirement Visa, if you are a citizen of a country whose embassy in Thailand does not issue an “income affidavit” any more (these are the embassies of USA, U.K., Canada and Australia), you would need a “12 months bank statement”, showing that for the past 12 months, you have been transferring from abroad to your Thai bank account a minimum of 65,000 THB, consecutively month for month.

If your embassy still issues an affidavit of income, you can use this method for the financial proof, which needs a monthly income or pension of a minimum of 65,000 THB

For British, Australian and U.S. citizens, in the first year there is no other way around, than depositing a minimum of 800,000 THB in your Thai bank account and use this deposit for the financial proof which is required for the application to the “1-year extension of stay permit based on being over 50/retired”

The alternative would be, if you don’t have that kind of money or are not willing to deposit in a Thai Bank account is, paying an agent to “arrange” the requirements, which I, however, do not recommend

Or, as soon as you have accumulated 12 consecutive months of 65,000 THB transfers, all you need to do is apply for the next 1-year extension of the stay permit, using the 12- months bank statement. After you get the second 1-year extension issued, you could withdraw the 800,000 THB.

This application to a 1Year Extension costs a 1900 THB fee and you can theoretically do it all by yourself, or accept the help of an agent for the simplified legal service.

NOTE: It is income OR deposit.

There is a third method, called the “combination method”:

A combination mix of income and deposit. Some immigrations don’t allow the combination method in the first year.

And some Immigration want the deposit part to exceed 400,000 THB.

The combination method means that the sum of the deposit AND the monthly income exceeds 800,000 THB in one year.

But let’s continue with the “normal method” (visa issued in your home country, followed by the application to the 1-year Extension inside Thailand):

On the day of application to the 1-year extension, the 800,000 THB need to have “seasoned” in your account for two months, and this has to be proven with the “bank letter of guarantee” (in Thai: rab roong thanakan).

You need:

*** an up-to-date TM30 registration of your accommodation in Thailand

*** your passport. Copies of passport detail page and page with the entry stamp

*** your updated bankbook and the “bank letter of guarantee” and an receipt of an ATM withdrawal of a small amount on the same day

*** a TM7 form (you will get it on Immigration)

***you sign in blue ink on all copies

*** you sign forms STM2, STM11 and STM9

*** maybe you get asked for a copy of your TDAC (digital arrival card)

*** 1900 Thai Baht application fee

*** 1000 Thai Baht fee for the single entry permit

After been issued the “1-year Extension of the Stay Permit based on Retirement”, the 800,000 THB need to remain in the account for 3 more months. After these 3 months, the deposit shall never go under 400,000 THB. Before the application to the next “1-year Extension of Stay”, a minimum of 800,000 THB must have seasoned in the account for two months, again

On the day you get issued the “1-year extension of stay permit”, you should buy a re-entry permit for it.

A re-entry permit will keep your stay permit alive in case you exit Thailand before the expiry of the 1-year stay permit.

A single re-entry permit is 1000 THB on Immigration. A multi re-entry is 3800 THB. With a multi re-entry permit, you could exit and re-enter unlimited times during the 1-year stay permit period.

From America...yes l would say fly!!! but check on Google Visa's and go from there 😁